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SAMUEL Ii. PARJUIORE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE TOlVER lllANUEAC'l[ HING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WASHING-FLUID.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,626, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed September 17, 1888. Serial No. 285,595. (Specimens) To (/7/ 1/2 /0711 it may concern:

lle it known that I, SAMUEL L. PARAMORE, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and. useful Improvement in lVashing-Eluids, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a fluid that is free from all acids or other chemicals that eat into and injure the fabrics to be cleansed, acting simply as a solvent to .free the dirt and stains that soil the fabrics, but having no injurious effect on the fabric itself, which is insoluble; and the invention consists in features of novelty, hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

The fluid is compounded substantially in accordance with and of the constituent parts of the following formula: Take six pounds of Indian corn and three and one-half pounds of oats. Soak said grain for twelve hours in half a gallon of soft or rain water.- Then add five gallons of soft water and boil down until the liquid, when strained, will be reduced to four gallons, and strain the same. Then add to said fluid one pound of fll acrotis raccmosc, or black. snalreroot, (also called black Cohosh root,) one pound of gentian root, of the genus Genffmrua) one pound of blood root, (a species of Sang munM1,) one pound of Virginia snakeroot, (Arisfolochid serpentm'zim) one-half pound of ginseng, (of the genus Punter: and the species P. quz'uqua fol bum) onehalf pound of dried ground slippery-elm bark, and one-half pound of common salt (chloride of sodium.) Then boil down until the liquid. product will be two and. one-half gallons. Then strain and filter The product is then ready for bottling up or otherwise preserving it for future use, or for the supply of the trade.

In using follow the ensuing directions: Fill a boiler half full of water and warm the same to a blood-heat. Then add about one-eigluzh of a pound of good soap, sliced, and one teaspoonful of the above solvent fluid.

The clothes to be washed (which have been previously soaked for ten or twelve hours or over night in cold water and wrung out halfdry) are soaped well, especially on soiled parts, and are then put into the boiler and boiled twentyfive to thirty minutes, according to the condition of the clothes.

The clothes while boiling should be well stirred, so as to bring all parts into free in- I terconrse with the solvent fluid and to aid the escape from the fabric of the dirt and stains with which it is soiled. Then rinse and dry, as usual.

Rubbing is entirely dispensed with, as the solvent fluid eifects the complete dissolution of all dirt and stains that have soiled the fabrics, which fabrics, not being soluble, are not injured, as they are by chemical acidulated compounds that eat into and disintegrate both the dirt that soils the fabrics and the fabrics themselves.

It will thus be seen that the main arduous labor of washing-that of rubbing the clothes to wear off the dirtis avoided, and also the extensive wear and tear of the clothes in that operation is avoided alsov Although I generally prefer to use the proportions of the various ingredients as disclosed in the above formula and condense them to said formulated strength for common household and laundry washing, and use the proportional amount of the fluid stated, yet I do not confine myself to the exact formula for all classes of fabrics to be cleansed, for when in use, for instance, in cleansing very foul rags and bagging, the formula may be somewhat varied in its proportions without departing from the essential features of the invention, the constituent elements of the invention being always the same.

I claim as my invention 1. A washing-liquid composed of an extract of black snakeroot, gentian root, bloodroot, Virginia snakeroot, ginseng, slippery elm bark, Indian corn and oats, and a solution of common salt, substantially in accordance with the formula, as described.

2. A washing-liquid composed of an extract of the following ingredients in about the following proportions: one pound of black snakeroot, one pound of gentian root, one pound of bloodroot, one pound of Virginia snakeroot, half a pound of ginseng, half a pound of slippery-elm bark, six pounds of Indian corn, three and a half pounds of oats, and half a pound of common salt in solution, substantially in accordance with the formula as described.

SAMUEL L. PARAMORE. In presence of BENJN. A. KNIGHT, Enw. S. KNIGHT. 

